Archives for
June 2007

TurnHere, the video company that creates videos for businesses, is releasing a series of online videos featuring Simon & Schuster authors and sneak previews of new releases. The videos will be showcased on the Simon & Schuster-branded YouTube channel...

SmartSheet, the web-based spreadsheet creation service, has raised $2.69 million in a Series A-4 of funding, led by Madrona Venture Group. SmartSheet, which won Business 2.0's Best of Show award earlier this year, has a good management team, some mem...

The iPhone platform was only announced a few days ago, and third party applications are already sprouting up. As the developers start to warm up their seats and grind away their nights coding cool stuff, the question is: which apps would really work ...

HeyCosmo is an online web-cam service that lets users communicate and participate using live interactivity with each other. The site is currently in private beta but is set to launch later on tonight. The purpose behind HeyCosmo is to broadcast conte...

TripAdvisor, the travel blogging service, is scheduled to roll out more social networking aspects to its service, making it easier to find and share information from others. The new features should launch sometime tomorrow. The new social components ...

Seven convicted sex offenders with MySpace profiles have been arrested from various cities in Texas, as a direct result of the Attorneys General request for MySpace's cooperation in identifying registered sex offenders on the social networking site. ...

Virtual Lower East Side (VLES) is an online community that has created some interesting replicas of various locations from New York. Create an avatar to participate in the virtual world, and network with others. The main focus of VLES is very much ge...

Honda has teamed up with Sony to be the sole sponsor for the Minisode series that are being shown exclusively on MySpace. We first covered Sony's minisode announcement here. The minisode advertisements shown my Honda will be fittingly shortened to ab...

Sonific, the widget creator that lets you put songs on your MySpace profile, has added a network for musicians and record labels to add their own music to be used. The network is geared towards record labels and those artists that would like to promo...

In the case T.V. versus Union Township Board of Education, a teenager was sexually assaulted in 2003 by another middle schooler, who was convicted. As T.V. is blaming the school for the emotional distress that was caused to her as a result of her ass...

LouderVoice, the reviews network geared towards bloggers, has added Twitter capabilities to its service. The new feature is aptly named LouderTweets. We first reviewed LouderVoice here. You can now write 140-character reviews on Twitter, and they wil...

MindQuarry is an open source collaborative service that lets you work with team members or clients. It's latest features will be announced at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston next week, and will be made available for previewing at that time. The open source ...

eBuddy, the web and mobile messenger service, has officially launched its mobile version yesterday. We covered its initial announcement here. There are a few updates included in the official release, pertaining to both its web and mobile platforms. T...

Jaiku, the other microblogging service, is unveiling its new mobile application at the Supernova 2007 conference in San Francisco next week. This is an effort to bring the full web experience of Jaiku to mobile phones. In doing so, Jaiku has incorpor...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is wrapping up its plans to re-sell "The Chaser's War on Everything" to television networks overseas. The show is still doing pretty well on television, but it has also garnered an International following due t...

WiiTube, the niche video site for Wii videos, has launched its own Facebook application. See our original review here. With the WiiTube Facebook app, you can browse through WiiTube games, see how other users rate them, and add a rating yourself. The ...

Bebo sent us a teaser (on a Friday night!) hinting that it will be launching a slew of new widgets every day, for four days, starting this Monday, June 18th. So what's this all about? We're not quite sure, but Bebo tells us that the widgets will addr...

Freewebs and WidgetBox are holding a contest for someone to make the most innovative widget on the planet. You can register here. The contest asks you to build a widget based on your favorite pop culture character, global warming or another "green" i...

Here's a funny story: Avvo, the recently launched online community that offers ratings of lawyers and lets you rate and comment on lawyers as well, is being sued by none other than two lawyers. See our initial coverage here. Attorneys John Henry Brow...

LifeLock is a startup that provides protection against identity theft, and was founded by Robert Maynard after his experience with being falsely arrested and repairing his own credit. But once the Phoenix Times discovered the truth behind LifeLock, M...

YouTube has launched its Remixer tool, which is available on TestTube. Check it out here. The remixer lets you add effects and graphics, text and audio, overlays and transitions to your YouTube videos, directly in your browser. The remix tool is powe...

So, you don't mind being followed and tracked? You don't care if your friends can see what websites you've been to lately, what software you've been running, or even what music you've been listening to? Then you'll love the web's trend towards extrem...

We love Greasemonkey because with it, we don't have to wait for that special new feature on some website: we can build it ourselves. One of the most popular sites among Greasemonkey code ninjas is Digg; here are 10 great Greasemonkey hacks that you c...

Although previously displaying a "coming soon" message, it appears that the m.youtube.com site has now gone live, providing more convenient access to YouTube from mobile devices. It carries a warning, too: "YouTube Mobile is a data intensive applicat...

Network Map is a new Facebook application built by Sami Fouad, to show a visual representation of Facebook's network stats on a Google map. As you well know, Facebook is broken down into four kinds of networks: college, high school, region and workpl...

Photobucket has created a new application for Facebook--Photobucket Postcards can now be sent to your friends on Facebook's social networking site. With Photobucket Postcards, you can send an image, slideshow, mashup or video with a greeting attached...

123Flickr is a new gallery creator that generates code for you to insert a Flickr gallery into your website or social networking profile. Note that this is not a Flickr-created tool, but one developed by a third party. All you need to do is enter the...

Desktop Nexus is a recently launched community for desktop wallpapers. It may sound a bit irrelevant at first, but for those of you that would like to find an image with the proper resolution for your computer screen without a million pop-up ads, you...

Here's your Facebook Apps fix for the day: Grupl is a Digg-like application that lets you submit links to be voted on. Vote up the stories you enjoyed, and the most popular content rises to the top. You can leave comments for news links as well. Grup...

Glam Media has officially become the number one online destination for women, overtaking iVillage, which had the stronghold on the market for the past eight years. With its large network of blogs and premium content, Glam has grown rapidly, gained ov...

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